Left-Extremist Endeavours

Intelligence targets essentially
unchanged
Changing priorities and
permanent tasks
Intelligence target: industry
Since September 1998, Colonel General Konstantin TOTSKIJ
has been the head of the FPS which is said to have a staff of
more than 200,000.
2. Intelligence Targets and Methods of Russian
Intelligence Services
The most important intelligence targets of the Russian foreignintelligence
services continue to be politics, economy, science
and technology, and the military complex.
In April, the chief adviser to SVR chief TRUBNIKOV, the former
SVR Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr GOLUBYOV, gave his views on
the tasks of intelligence services to the Russian military journal
"Krasnaya Zvezda" ("Red Star"). He said that - due to the given
political situation - there may be changes in intelligence requirements
and shifts of priorities. Thus, the present intelligence focus
was on the economic sector and on science and technology.
Nevertheless, the intelligence sector had, in addition, the continuing
and unchanged task of providing the Government, on a
continuous basis, with information required for decision-making
in all areas.
In late December 1998, the then press spokesman of the SVR,
Yuri KOBALADSE, said to the Russian news agency "ITAR TASS" -
with regard to economy as an intelligence target - that while the
economic sector had become a preferred field of action of the
Russian secret services, this had not been to the detriment of the
other work priorities of the SVR.
In February, the new head of the SVR’s public information office,
Boris LABUSOV, also commented, in an interview with the government
mouthpiece "Izvestiya", on SVR activities in the economic
sector:
"The SVR is called upon to create favourable conditions
abroad for asserting and enforcing Russian economic
interests and to draw foreign investors to our country."
Intelligence target: NATO Particular priority has been given by the Russian foreign-intelligence
services to NATO as an intelligence target. The reasons
for this were the admission of several countries of the Warsaw
Pact to membership of the Atlantic Alliance, and NATO’s
activities in connection with the Kosovo conflict. The Russian
intelligence interest focused on NATO’s strategy for resolving the
Balkan crisis; the differing views of NATO partner states on
ending the Kosovo conflict; German participation in NATO
operations, and the resultant tension within the German
government coalition;
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